Malta cave provides experts with evidence that indicates humans possibly forayed into the sea before becoming farmers.

Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

For a long time, the planet’s small remote islands were considered the last untouched refuges of nature—isolated ecosystems ...

Malta reached earlier than previously thought: Researchers have found evidence that hunter-gatherers arrived on the island by boat as early as 8,500 years ago – around 1,000 years before the first ...

Hunter-gatherers probably saw Malta initially from high vantage points ... To better understand the nature of early seafaring capabilities, and how hunter-gatherers might have transformed these ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new international study has found. Published in Nature, the ...

Photo: Aron Tanti In Malta, the annual spring hunting season has become political theatre, where science is sidelined, conservation is diluted, and the word ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...